Just three Cork players make team compared with four from Stephen Kenny’s side

Dundalk have eclipsed Cork City in the PFAI Premier Division Team of the Year with the champions managing to secure just three slots in the side, two of them taken by players no longer with the club, while Stephen Kenny’s side got four.

Ryan Delaney, Gearóid Morrissey and Seán Maguire are the three members of City’s double-winning side to be voted into the side by their fellow pros from across the league but the likes of Mark McNulty, Alan Bennett and Conor McCormack are among those to have missed out despite having made major contributions to their side’s success.

Maguire makes the three-man shortlist for the overall Player of the Year award despite having left for England midway through the season and he is the only City player to secure a nomination with Pat McEleney and Aaron McEneff the other candidates. The winners of the individual awards will be named on Saturday week at an event in Dublin.